Gemma Files is a Canadian citizen, and has lived in Toronto, Ontario for her entire life (thus far). She is the daughter of two actors, Gary Files and Elva Mai Hoover. She has published two collections of short stories (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart, both from Prime Books) and two chapbooks of poetry […]
Genevieve Valentine’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, and Apex, and in the anthologies Federations, The Living Dead 2, The Way of the Wizard, Running with the Pack, Teeth, and more. Her nonfiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Tor.com, and Fantasy Magazine, and she is […]
Kelly Link (1969 — ), one of the guests of honor at this year’s International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, is an influential American writer of hard-to-classify short fiction that has been described as fantasy, slipstream, or magic realism. Link has published three collections: Stranger Things Happen (2001), Magic for Beginners (2005), and Pretty Monsters (2008). […]
Ramsey Shehadeh splits his time between writing stories and writing software. His fiction has appeared in Weird Tales (where “Creature” originally appeared), Strange Horizons, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He blogs at Glass Maze. “Creature” is one of our favorite stories, in part because of the brilliant juxtaposition of an energetic and seemingly […]
Art copyright Michael Zulli; all rights reserved. Caitlín R. Kiernan has steadily moved beyond an early reputation as an heir to the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft and Southern Gothic literature to become one of the most original and audacious weird writers of her generation. Her new novel, The Drowning Girl, is told by India Morgan […]
As part of Eric Basso Week here at Weirdfictionreview.com, we wanted to provide readers with a selection of his poems. Six different poetry collections are represented here, with the exception of his most recent collection, Umbra. This is but a small representation of his poetic output, and we encourage readers to seek out more of his poetry. […]
Weirdfictionreview.com is proud to present an excerpt from Eric Basso’s novella “The Beak Doctor,” featured in The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. It is also the title work of Basso’s collection of short fiction, The Beak Doctor: Short Fiction 1972 – 1976. “The Beak Doctor” has had a cult following among avant-garde gothic writers since it was […]
Kali Wallace studied earthquakes and continents as a geophysicist before leaving academia. She lives in Colorado, where she now enjoys inventing fictional worlds more than she ever liked devising equations to describe the real one. A member of the Clarion 2010 graduating class, her short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and she has […]
Michael Cisco (1970 — ) is an American writer best known for his first novel, The Divinity Student, which was published by Ann VanderMeer’s Buzzcity Press and won the International Horror Guild Award in 1999. Since then, Cisco has published The San Veneficio Canon, The Traitor, The Tyrant, The Narrator, and The Great Lover. Taken together, these […]
The prolific and high-respected U.S. writer Kit Reed has stories coming out this year in Asimov’s SF Magazine and The Yale Review, and previously has appeared in Omni, the Kenyon Review, The North Anthology of American Literature, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Her most recent novel is Enclave. Others include Thinner Than Thou, which won an ALA Alex […]